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UK in ‘new era of national security’ as AI supercharges rising threats, security chief warns

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The United Kingdom has entered a new phase of national security as a “more contested era” replaces the stability of the post Cold War years, the head of the country’s domestic security service MI5 said Tuesday, delivering a bleak warning that a wide array of threats from states and terrorists could be supercharged by artificial intelligence.

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